Popular Culture as Everyday Life

In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane experiences of everyday life.

At the beginning of the book, the authors have provided a grid that shows the topics and themes that each article touches on. This book is for popular culture classes, and will also be an asset in courses on the sociology of everyday life, ethnography, and social psychology.

Foreword
Introduction: Popular Culture as Everyday Life
Phillip Vannini and Dennis D. Waskul
Essays on the Daily Life of Popular Culture
1. Watching Television
Thomas Conroy
2. Watching Reality Television
Tony E. Adams
3. Watching Drug Commercials
Charles Edgley
4. Using Mobile Phones
Christopher J. Schneider
5. Sharing and Waiting on Facebook
Staci Newmahr
6. Reading
Michael Schwalbe
7. Making Video
Phillip Vannini
8. Sharing Selfies
Uschi Klein
9. Playing Music
Simon Gottschalk
10. Seeing Live Music
Emily M. Boyd
11. Playing Games is (Not Always) Fun
J. Patrick Williams
12. Sleeping
Carolyn Ellis
13. Having Sex
Beth Montemurro
14. Going to the Bathroom
Dennis D. Waskul
15. Getting Dressed
John C. Pruit
16. Putting on Makeup
Rebecca F. Plante
17. Drinking Coffee
Pernille S. Stroeback
18. Exercising
Michael Atkinson
19. Kicking Ass
Dale C. Spencer
20. Watching the Super Bowl
Bernard D. Glowinski and Joseph A. Kotarba
21. Home-Making
Karen McCormack
22. Having Pets
Leslie Irvine
23. On Not Driving
Sherryl Kleinman
24. Snow-Gazing
David Redmon
25. Shopping
Keith Berry
26. Trick-or-Treating
William Ryan Force
27. Staying in Hotels
Orvar Löfgren
28. (Not) Smoking
Justin A. Martin
29. Consuming Craft
Michael Ian Borer